Two Adair County men die in Boone County accident

Two Adair County men are dead as a result of a one vehicle accident in Northern Kentucky Sunday morning, July 29th. According to the Boone County Sheriff’s office 48 year old Robert Lee Gilbert of Glens Fork was operating a pickup truck hauling a boat trailer when, according to witnesses, the driver’s side rear tire came off the truck resulting in it going out of control, off the roadway and flipping into an embankment. Gilbert was taken to a Cincinnati hospital and pronounced dead on arrival. Another occupant in the pickup truck, 34 year old Preston Allen Gilbert of Glens Fork, was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators say both were ejected from the vehicle. The accident happened around 10 A.M. Eastern time in the southbound lane of Interstate 75 near its junction with Interstate 71 about 20 miles south of Cincinnati in the Walton community of Boone County.